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Re: [TenTec] Orion with Dying Receiver

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion with Dying Receiver
From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
Reply-to: geraldj@weather.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:10:38 -0600
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Vibration from the speaker no doubt speeds up things working loose. But they work loose anyway, from vibration of the external speaker, rigs run mobile, hand helds, normal operation, and temperature cycling along with the propensity of plastic to relieve the pressure from being squeezed. Not to mention vibration from wind, passing pedestrians, pets, trucks, trains, snow plows, farm tractors, honey wagons, and aircraft. In this territory a tractor and loaded honey wagon combination might weigh 140,000 pounds, that shakes things while it pounds the gravel road to powder.

I use an external speaker because, most of the time, the internal speaker is too tiny (and tinny) to sound good.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 1/22/2011 11:39 AM, Denton wrote:
One real old timer once told me not to use the speaker built into the
radio....the vibration from the speaker tends to work things loose.
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